Baseball glove and the like



Dec. 14, 1943.

J. A. DUBOW BASEBALL GLOVE AND THE LIKE Filed Oct. 22, 1941 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 8 8 Fit- 9'25, l ,M

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Patented Dec. 14, 1943 UNITE stares OFFICE BASEBALL GLOVE; AND THE LIKE Jacob A. Dubow, Chicago, Ill. Application October 22, 1941, Serial No. 415,991

13 Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in baseball gloves and the like and has for one object to provide a baseball glove wherein each finger back is a one-piece integral leather member and wherein each finger back is provided with a welt integral with the body of the back and is so formed that the finger back toward the end curves forwardly whereby each finger is reinforced by an integral welt and wherein if the seam forming the welt should fail, the glove will not come to pieces.

Other objects will appear from time to time throughout the specification. and claims.

My invention is illustrated more or less diagrammatically in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank from which the finger back for the index, middle and ring fingers is formed;

Figure 2 is a plan view of the blank from which the finger back for the little finger is to be formed;

Figure 3 is a section along the line 3-3 of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a section along the line 4-4 of Figure 1;

Figure 5 is a section along the line 55 of Figure 2;

Figure 6 is a plan view of the folded and sewn finger back formed from the blank illustrated in Figure l;

Meme 7 is a section along the line 1-! of Figure 6;

Figure 8 is a section along the lined-8 of Figure 6;

Figure 9 is a longitudinal section along the line 9-9 of Figure 6 of a complete finger back;

Figure 10 is the perspective of a baseball glove showing several fingers;

Figure 11 is a section along the line llli of Figure 10.

Like parts are indicated by like characters throughout the specification and drawings.

The palm of the glove is made in any suitable or desired manner, preferably as is usual of a single piece of leather which includes all four fingers but not the thumb. The fingers in the assembled glove are generally fiat and because the character of the palm forms no part of my invention, is not further illustrated.

Each of the fingers has a separate finger back i, joined in any suitable way to the palm 3 of the glove. 4 is a welt longitudinally disposed with respect to each finger back, extending from the tip of the finger longitudinally to the binding 5 on the back of the glove at approximately the knuckles of the wearer. This welt, as will hereinafter appear, is integral with the body of the finger back and there is a separate finger back for each of the four fingers, the finger back forming each finger being joined by seams 6. The welt reinforces each finger back and the method of construction of the welt at the same time insures that each finger will have the necessary forward bending or curvature desirable to provide a glove which naturally and normally without the application of force from the wearer forms a ball pocket.

7 is the finger back for the little finger. Its construction as will hereinafter appear is slightly different from the construction of the finger back I, for the index, middle and ring fingers but it has in common with welt.

Referring now to Figures 1, 3 and 4, which illustrate the blank from which all but the little finger back is formed, it will be seen that the blank 8 has a longitudinally extended parallel sided section 9, reduced in thickness throughout the entire length of the blank. This reduction in thickness is obtained by shaving the inner flesh side of the leather blank.

On both sides of the reduced section 9 is a V- shaped notch Ill, each notch being bounded on one side by the parallel sided reduced section 9, the other side of the notch being bounded by the curved surface I I, which is convex with respect to the reduced section;

I2 is the little finger back blank. While the outer contour of the blank diifers from the contour of the blank 8, the little finger blank has the same reduced portion 9, the same V-shaped notches Hi, bounded by curved surfaces l However, the little finger blank also has along one edge a second reduced section l3, which is provided in order to permit the construction of an integral side welt along the joint between the palm of the glove and the outside edge of the little finger back.

The method of forming each finger back from the blanks above referred to is the same so reference to one will suifice for both.

To assemble the blank, the operator folds the two sections back to back with the hair sides which will form the outside of the finger back together. She then tucks or forces between the two edges of the two sides of the blank the portion of the blank reduced in thickness so as to ,form a single U-shaped section and then sews a seam through the four thicknesses of the leather, the seam passing through the edge of the unreduced portion, the edge of the reduced portion on one them the same longitudinal side, the edge of the reduced portion and the edge of the unreduced portion on the other side. Thus the seam passes through four thicknesses of the leather and forms a U-shaped head or welt. This seam is continued until the apex of the V-shape is reached. At that point the four edges of the full thickness blank portion and of the reduced portion are held and sewn together. This results in the production of the folded and sewn finger blank of Figure 6 and it will be noted that the welt seam is formed along a straight line throughout the body of the blank up to the apex of the V-shaped notch and then is formed along a receding curved line.

When the back thus formed is reversed we then have the finger back shown in section in Figure 9. The finger tip end of the blank being forwardly curved to conform to the desired conformation of the finger.

The finger hacks for the middle, index and ring fingers are then sewed together in the usual manner and sewn by the usual type of welted seam to the palm. The same is true of the back for the little finger except that the little finger back is longer and extends down to the heel of the glove as indicated at l4.

However, instead of joining the side edge of the little finger back to the palm by the conventional type of welted seam as in connection with the other three fingers and with one side of the little finger back, the reduced portion 53, along the edge of the little finger back is recurved and a seam is sewn through both edges of this reduced portion, the body of the little finger back and the edge of the palm section. as indicated at E5. Thus the integral welt extends along the entire little finger outer edge of the glove.

The triangular piece IS on the side of the blank other than the little finger blank is provided in order that the joint between the fingers between the adjacent finger backs will not come apart at the Y. This piece is bent upwardly and sewn to the adjacent finger back in any suitable manner.

I claim:

1. A blank for a finger back for a baseball glove and the like comprising a single flat elongated piece of leather, the thickness of which is reduced in a longitudinal generally central zone extending throughout the entire length of the blank.

2. A blank for a finger back for a baseball glove and the like comprising a single flat elongated piece of leather, the thickness of which is reduced in a longitudinal generally central zone extending throughout the entire length of the blank, the reduced zone being bounded by two parallel straight lines, tapered notches extending inwardly from the periphery of the blank on both sides of one end of the zone.

3. A blank for a finger back for a baseball glove and the like comprising a single flat elongated piece of leather, the thickness of which is reduced in a longitudinal generally central zone extending throughout the entire length of the blank, the reduced zone being bounded by two parallel straight lines, tapered notches extending inwardly from the periphery of the blank on both sides of one end of the zone, each notch on the side furthest removed from the zone being bounded by a curve convex with respect to the zone.

4. A blank for a finger back for a baseball glove and the like comprising a single fiat elongated piece of leather, the thickness of which is reduced in a longitudinal generally central zone extending throughout the entire length of the blank,

tapered notches extending inwardly from the periphery of the blank on both sides of one end of the zone.

5. A blank for a finger back for a baseball glove and the like comprising a single fiat elongated piece of leather, the thickness of which is reduced in a longitudinal generally central zone extending throughout the entire length of the blank, tapered notches extending inwardly from the periphery of the blank on both sides of one end of the zone, each notch on the side furthest removed from the zone being bounded by a curve convex with respect to the zone.

6. A blank for a finger back for baseball gloves and the like comprising a single, fiat elongated piece of leather, the thickness of which is reduced in two longitudinal zones, one of them generally central of the blank and bounded by two parallel straight lines, the other located along one edge of the blank of uniform width throughout.

7. In a baseball glove, a one-piece finger back of reduced thickness, centrally and having a central longitudinal welt integral with the body of the back, and coinciding with said reduced portion.

8. In a baseball glove, 2. one piece finger back of reduced thickness, centrally and having a central longitudinal welt integral with the body of the back and extending throughout the entire length of the finger portion of the glove, and coinciding with said reduced portion.

9. A finger back for baseball gloves and the like having an integral welt longitudinally disposed along the center of the back, the Welt being formed throughout a portion of its length of a strip of material, integral with the body of the back, folded upon itself and held between two parallel exposed edges of the body of the back by a seam which passes through both said edges of the body of the back and through the folded edges of the strip.

10. A finger back for baseball gloves and the like having an integral welt longitudinally disposed along the center of the back, the welt being formed throughout a portion of its length of an upwardly curved portion of the back, and throughout a portion of its length of a strip of material integral with the body of the back, folded upon itself and held between two parallel exposed edges of the back by a seam which for a portion of its length passes through both sides of the upwardly curved portion and also through the body of the back on both sides of the upwardly curved portion and for a portion of its length passes through both the exposed edges of the body of the back and the folded edges of the strip.

11. In a baseball glove, a palm piece havinga plurality of finger portions, a separate integral one piece finger back for each finger, each back being separately joined to a finger portion of the palm piece, each finger back being joined to the adjacent finger back adjacent the knuckles of the wearer, an integral welt extending longitudinally of each finger back from the tip of the finger substantially to the knuckles of the wearer and a welt integral with the little finger back joined to the palm piece by a seam which extends through the welt, through the body of the little finger back and through the edge of the palm piece.

12. A blank for a finger back for a baseball glove and the like, comprising a single flat, elongated piece of leather having, at its outer end, a projecting tongue, of substantially uniform width from end to end, the tongue being bounded at each side by notches formed in the end of the blank.

the width of the notches increasing progressively outwardly toward the end of the blank.

13. LA unitary finger back comprising a single elongated piece of leather, having at its outer end a projecting tongue of substantially uniform width from end to end, the tongue being bounded at each side by notches formed in the end of the piece, the width of the notches increasing progressively outwardly toward the end of the piece,

the back being formed with a unitary welt formed 10 by two parallel adjacent inward folds extending longitudinally along the piece, the inturned inner edges of the folds being secured together by a single row of stitching, the welt continuing to the end of the tongue, the opposed edges of the notches being folded in, and secured by said single stitching, in continuation of the welt formed in the unnotched. part of the piece.

JACOB A. DUBOW. 

